Poll: Cross Platform GUI
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I do not. Every effort I have seen has not been productive. It is far better to really seperate the business code from the presentation and develope the presentation for the enviroment. I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that I can think of.
wxWidgets can use what's called XRC to seperate the GUI from the code, which is very much like XAML. Jeremy Falcon
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I vote for Qt. It is open source. Version 4 was reciently launched and now free version is available for Windows.
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The trouble with Qt (which I think is a fine lib too) is that commercial development isn't free. :~
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Uhm, how many people here think cross-platform GUI programming is actually a good idea?
Cross-platform GUI programming isn't all that bad. I think Qt does a good job, unlike Java. The only objections I have is when for example an app looks like a windows app, when it's running on Mac or Unix. As long as the platform's look'n'feel is preserved (without horrible performance penalties!), then there's no problem really...? Good music: In my rosary[^]
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Not me! I've always thought that the entire cross-platform argument was a crock mainly because it's impossible. There's always something that platform A can do that platform B can't. Whereupon the code base compiled for platform B grows a conditionally compiled excressence to fake something. And then the code base for platform A grows a similar excressence to compensate for the things IT can't do... And that way madness lies... Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]
If system A supports the WIMP-idiom and system B as well, then it is quite possible (which I believe Qt demonstrates quite well). However, when you start to abstract away the operating system (of which the GUI is only a small part), then you end up with a very bad lowest common denominator. Good music: In my rosary[^]
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They have to make money somehow. And it's not all that much money, if you compare the cost of the needed effort to write your own GUI abstractions. Good music: In my rosary[^]
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They have to make money somehow. And it's not all that much money, if you compare the cost of the needed effort to write your own GUI abstractions. Good music: In my rosary[^]
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It's around $4000 per developer. That's makes it unfeasable for any small scale projects that wouldn't be expected to generate a lot of revenue.
But then again.. what small scale projects are cross-platform? Just to support more than one platform requires quite an organization. Just supporting the 9x and the NT sides of Windows requires more than you'd want. Good music: In my rosary[^]
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But then again.. what small scale projects are cross-platform? Just to support more than one platform requires quite an organization. Just supporting the 9x and the NT sides of Windows requires more than you'd want. Good music: In my rosary[^]
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True, but there wouldn't be much point in it, would it? Unless, of course, you find the features in the library well worth the money. :) Good music: In my rosary[^]
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I am also using it currently, and it rocks, but I am not sure of its future. It has still a long way to grow and mature enough like MFC, where you want a control and just search codeproject, finish... http://www.priyank.in/
That's a reasonable doubt, but if authors continue their work like they did till now..the future looks good:cool: --- YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BLONDIE!?!? YOU'RE JUST A SON OF A BA A A A AAAAAAAAAA!!!!! http://sprdsoft.cmar-net.org